Marvel vs. DC

I would have to agree that DC has some heroes that are definitely on another level. Superman being the main one but Flash and all the speedsters also fit that form. As well as the GL (and other lantern) Corp.

I personally found Marvel heroes more compelling in large part because of this so am not as knowledgeable on DC characters. But I still have some exceptions to a couple of things stated.

Its never said (that I can find) that batman is as strong as Captain America just that they are basically equals as far as fighting prowess. And actually Batman has had more time training than Cap seeing as he started at a younger age and didn’t spend years frozen in ice. Oh and Marvel does have its equal to GL, Quasar but admittedly he’s just one man verse an entire Corp.

BUT I still wouldn’t give the fight so easily to the DCU. Look both mulitverses have thousands of characters and races and planets ect, ect. But just talking mostly about the superheroes of both Earths Marvel does have some advantages. For instance, Brains. Look DC has some super smart superheroes but not even close to as many as Marvel and not as smart. Here’s my best example: Superman’s longest running adversary is Lex Luthor right and he is what? An evil genius, probably on par with say Dr. Doom. And that alone has made him one of superman’s hardest adversaries. Marvel can mach him in spades with Richards, Pym, Stark, Banner and on and on.

And then in the Mental powers category DC has? John Johns, anyone else? Who have they got that can stand up to Xavier, Rachel, Nate, Moondragon?

Also as Phoenixx9 brought up Magic I believe Marvel has the edge here.

And lastly there is that annoying little thing DC has traditionally done to give its Super Superheroes a plot device, Weaknesses. A little thing to bring Supes to his knees, I think the Marvel crew could take advantage of that.

And the last point I would make is that the Marvel heroes go against much tougher opposition on a regular basis in my opinion. Here’s my reasoning: What DC has done to its heroes Marvel has done to its villains just made them able to do everything. My example Magneto. He is the master of magnetism, very powerful as is, I mean to control one of the four fundamental forces of the universe. But that was not enough they also gave him the ability to control all metal (no its not the same power but that’s a discussion for another day). Most Marvel characters have even fought mavelised versions of the DC heroes.

For DC it seems they have to make evil versions of their superheroes to come up with good opponents for them. Bizaro, Sinestro, Reverse Flash.

Anyway in a battle royal if you got to pick say 20 DC superheroes I think I could pick 20 marvels and have at least a 50/50 shot or better.

But If its just the Whole DCU verses the whole MU I’ll take the Celestials and power cosmic Over the lords of Order and Chaos and Lanterns.